It depends what else is on the array. Generally you should try and balance the load across both SPs. So create at least 2 Datastores, one owned by SP-A, one by SP-B. A LUN or Datastore is online to one SP, VMware will only send I/O to the SP owning the datastore. You will see half the paths as "Active (I/O)" and the other half as just "Active". The Multipathing should be using VMTP_ALUA_CX and Round Robin.
I am guessing you are using Fibrechannel so make sure all ESX hosts are zoned to ports on both SPs.
I don't understand what you mean with your last question.
Have you connected the Unity to your vCenter server? (In Unisphere: Access -> VMware) If so, then you can create a new VMFS datastore in Unisphere (Storage -> VMware), then decide which Hosts can access it. The Unisphere wizard will then contact vCenter and tell it to rescan for new datastores, setting up the new Datastore automatically.
I don't think you can use the integration between Unisphere and vCenter to configure this. You would have use the LUN/Block assignement method (the old-fashioned way) and manually set up the Datastore in VMware.
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It depends what else is on the array. Generally you should try and balance the load across both SPs. So create at least 2 Datastores, one owned by SP-A, one by SP-B. A LUN or Datastore is online to one SP, VMware will only send I/O to the SP owning the datastore. You will see half the paths as "Active (I/O)" and the other half as just "Active". The Multipathing should be using VMTP_ALUA_CX and Round Robin.
I am guessing you are using Fibrechannel so make sure all ESX hosts are zoned to ports on both SPs.
I don't understand what you mean with your last question.
Have you connected the Unity to your vCenter server? (In Unisphere: Access -> VMware) If so, then you can create a new VMFS datastore in Unisphere (Storage -> VMware), then decide which Hosts can access it. The Unisphere wizard will then contact vCenter and tell it to rescan for new datastores, setting up the new Datastore automatically.
Regards,
Stephen